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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 55, Issue 24, Pages 6892-6895Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201602142
Keywords
carbon corrosion; charging mechanism; EPR spectroscopy; lithium-air batteries; singlet oxygen
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- Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology under EEBatt project
- German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
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Aprotic lithium-oxygen (Li-O-2) batteries have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their outstanding theoretical energy density. A major challenge is their poor reversibility caused by degradation reactions, which mainly occur during battery charge and are still poorly understood. Herein, we show that singlet oxygen ((1)Delta(g)) is formed upon Li2O2 oxidation at potentials above 3.5 V. Singlet oxygen was detected through a reaction with a spin trap to form a stable radical that was observed by time- and voltage-resolved in operando EPR spectroscopy in a purpose-built spectroelectrochemical cell. According to our estimate, a lower limit of approximately 0.5% of the evolved oxygen is singlet oxygen. The occurrence of highly reactive singlet oxygen might be the long-overlooked missing link in the understanding of the electrolyte degradation and carbon corrosion reactions that occur during the charging of Li-O-2 cells.
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